CATALOGUE 

OF  AN  EXHIBITION  OF 

Etchings  and  Drawings 

BY 

C H I LDE 
HAS  SAM 

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FREDERICK  KEPPEL  fc?  CO. 

4 EAST  39th  STREET 

NEW  YORK 


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CATALOGUE 

OF  AN  EXHIBITION  OF 


Etchings  and  Drawings 

BY 

C H I LDE 
HA  S SA  M 


FREDERICK  KEPPEL  & CO. 
4 EAST  39th  STREET 

NEW  YORK 


NOVEMBER  16th  TO  DECEMBER  2nd 

1916 


' — ■ Mullin'  if  iT«i  — 


A PREFATORY  NOTE  ON 
THE  DRAWINGS 


T is  a pleasure  for  me  to  accede 
to  Mr.  Keppel’s  request  that  I 
write  a prefatory  note  for  this 
catalogue  of  recent  water-colors 
and  pastels  by  Childe  Hassam— an  artist  pos- 
sessed of  a rare  and  distinguished  talent. 

Mr.  Hassam  is  never  more  happy  in  his 
results  than  when  working  in  water-color: 
the  medium  is  thoroughly  congenial  to  him. 
The  artist  has  not  done  anything  finer  than 
the  Isles  of  Shoals  series,  which  were  painted 
three  or  four  years  ago  and  shown  last  win- 
ter. These  drawings  are  splendid  interpreta- 
tions of  nature  and  disclose  a very  sensitive 
vision.  They  are  possessed  of  much  style 
and  show  a strong  decorative  feeling,  besides 
displaying  the  artist’s  love  of  radiant  and  vi- 
brating color,  which  is  invariably  handled 
with  much  tact  and  discretion.  Technically, 
they  are  lessons  in  what  water-colors  should 
be,  with  their  broad  and  vigorous  washes,  in 
which  simplification  and  elimination  have 
played  a great  part.  They  are  drawn  as  Sar- 
gent employs  this  medium,  and  as  Whistler 
did  before  him. 

The  water-colors  in  the  present  exhibition 
are  for  the  greater  part  more  in  the  nature  of 


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studies  and  sketches,  but  they  are  very  de- 
lightful and  display  in  an  adequate  manner 
the  artist’s  gift  of  being  able  to  make  rapid 
color  notes  full  of  beauty  and  style.  Regard 
with  what  mastery  the  little  marine  showing 
the  long  wake  of  a boat  has  been  drawn,  how 
limpid  the  water  is  and  how  delicious  the 
color.  All  these  drawings  possess  a very 
personal  impress,  an  autographic  quality 
which  marks  them  as  being  unmistakably 
from  Mr.  Hassam’s  brush.  They  are  very 
spontaneous  and  joyous,  for  always,  as  I 
wrote  ten  years  ago  in  the  course  of  a study 
of  Mr.  Hassam’s  work,  on  the  occasion  of  a 
representative  exhibition  of  his  paintings  and 
water-colors,  is  his  vision  fresh  and  virile. 

A.  E.  Gallatin. 


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ETCHINGS 

Old  Warehouses,  Portsmouth 
The  Chimneys,  Portsmouth 
Street  in  Newburgh 
Sunset,  Constable’s  Hook 
Rainy  Day,  St.  Mark’s 
The  Dance 
Kitty  Resting 
Moonrise  at  Sunset 
Reading  in  Bed 
The  Little  Piano 
A Portrait 
Cos  Cob 

The  Old  Toll  Bridge 

Palmer’s  Dock,  Cos  Cob 

Long  Ridge 

Elms  in  May 

Cos  Cob  Dock 

Old  Lace 

Toby’s,  Cos  Cob 

The  Old  House,  Cos  Cob 

The  Writing  Desk 

The  Steps 

The  White  Mantel 

The  White  Kimono 

The  Dutch  Door 

The  Bird  Book 

Young  Pan  Piping 

Calvary  Church  in  Snow 

The  Church  across  the  Way 

Church  Doorway,  Snow 


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31  Battery  Park 

32  Washington’s  Birthday  (Fifth  Avenue 

and  23d  Street) 

33  The  Dressing  Table 

34  Swimmer— Morning 

35  Swimmer — Evening 

36  The  Auto  School 

37  Fifth  Avenue,  Noon 

38  Nocturne,  Cos  Cob 

39  Rue  de  Nevers,  Paris 

40  Zola’s  House,  Avenue  Trudaine,  Paris 

41  Montmartre 

42  The  Billboards,  New  York 

43  Old  Shops,  New  York 

44  The  Linden  Tree 

45  Fresco 

46  Toledo 

47  Old  Chinatown,  San  Francisco 

48  The  Far  Horizon 

49  Diana’s  Pool,  Appledore 

50  The  High  Pool 

51  Madonna  of  the  North  End 

52  Portsmouth  Doorway 

53  Fire  Dance 

54  Newport  Harbor 

55  Newfields,  N.  H. 

56  Halcyon  Hill 

57  The  Surf 

58  Portrait  of  Albert  Roullier 

58a  Stock  Broker’s  Office,  Wall  Street 
58b  The  Almond  Tree 


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DRAWINGS 


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The  Church  across  the 
Way 

Pencil 

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The  Organ  Grinder 

Crayon 

61 

Long  Ridge 

Pencil  and  Pastel 

62 

Chimneys,  Portsmouth 

Pencil 

63 

Fifth  Avenue,  Noon 

Pencil 

64 

Elms  in  May 

Pencil 

65 

Church  Doorway,  Snow 

Pencil  and  Crayon 

66 

Swimmer,  Morning 

Pencil 

67 

Malheur  Lake 

Pencil  and  Crayon 

68 

Malheur  Desert 

Water  Color 

69 

Malheur  Desert 

Water  Color 

70 

Squaw’s  Cap,  Haney 
Desert 

Water  Color 

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Chestnuts,  Old  Lyme 

Water  Color 

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Snowin  Connecticut  Hills  Pen  and  Water 

Color 

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Appledore 

Pastel 

74 

Appledore 

Pastel 

75 

Figure  Study 

PencilandPigment 

76 

Figure  Study 

Crayon  and 
Chinese  White 

77 

14  Juilliet,  Montmartre 

Water  Color 

78 

Perros  Guirec 

Water  Color 

79 

Brittany  Barns,  Perros 
Guirec 

Water  Color 

80 

Outer  Gate,  Toledo 

Water  Color 

81 

Portal,  Toledo 

Crayon  and  Wash 

82 

Seville 

Water  Color 

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Toledo 

Water  Color 

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Pencil  and  Crayon 


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The  Steps,  Cos  Cob 

Madonna  of  the  North 
End,  Boston 

Malcolm  Street,  Boston 
Acorn  Street,  Boston 
Old  House,  Newburgh 
Coytesville 
On  the  Palisades 


Water  Color 
Water  Color 
Water  Color 
Water  Color 
Water  Color 
Water  Color 


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